Re: Compound Slurs

[Urs Liska]

Am 22.09.2016 um 14:26 schrieb Urs Liska:
> Am 22.09.2016 um 13:39 schrieb Pierre Perol-Schneider:
>> Hi Urs,
>>
>> Really nice, congrats!
>> One thing: Last year I had a discussion about how to draw flat slurs
>> (see: https://notat.io/viewtopic.php?p=696#p696)
>> Do you thing you could integrate such option in your function, I mean a
>> simple - but really strait - line in between slurs ?
> That should be possible (within the limits of what Simon responded -
> OTOH Carl Sorensen already mentioned how that could be overcome).
>
>
> I see two alternative approaches, although the second won't always help
> with *that*.
>
> a)
> allow a special value 'straight as an inflection's "angle" property.
> This will then make the handle point to the next point. When the angle
> of the next point is 0 then you should have a straight line.
> The problem with this is that when the angle is determined the next
> point isn't known yet, and when that next point becomes known the
> control point left of the current inflection has already been calculated.
> I'll have to look into this, but it should be possible to re-calculate
> the left point.

This was actually quite easy to implement.
Now you can specify one inflection to have an angle of 'straight and the
next inflection of 0 (zero), which reliably creates a straight line
between the two (see attached).

You'll see the differing line width, thought, but I hope we'll be able
to solve that as well.

Urs

>
> b)
> Currently the angle at an inflection is given as relative to the
> previous segment's baseline. I like this because it gives quite
> predictable results, but it could be extended by optional behaviours:
> A general or local option could interpret angles at an inflection as
> relative to the whole slur's baseline, or even as absolute angles
> (relative to horizontal). This may in *some* cases simplify the
> construction of flat segments, but I can imagine there are situations
> where this might be useful in general.
>

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